Milica Zelda Tinska (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Милица Зелда Тинска, born 1978) is a
Serbian actress who lives and works in
London
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,
UK.
Career
Zelda trained as a ballerina in the renowned
École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower
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, France, and later at the
London Studio Centre
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, a college for performing arts in London, UK.
She was a professional jazz, ballet and neoclassical dancer prior to becoming an actress, after being cast as Sonja in ''
The Beach'' opposite
Leonardo DiCaprio. As an actress, she appeared in the ''
Waking The Dead'', ''
The Bill
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The programme focused on ...
'', ''
The Beach'', ''
The Mother'', ''
Mathilde'' and many other productions, and has performed in
English
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,
French
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,
Serbian,
Croatian,
Bosnian,
Russian
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and
Albanian
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.
In 2009, Tinska signed a petition in support of film director
Roman Polanski
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, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his
1977 sexual abuse case.
Tinska was part of the visual effects team of the film ''
Ex Machina'' who received an
Oscar
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for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
When not acting, Zelda works as a VFX Producer.
Early life
Tinska is the daughter of famous Serbian actress, talk show host and writer
Jelena Tinska and Dragoslav Lutovac, a film and television director.
Filmography
References
External links
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1975 births
20th-century Serbian actresses
21st-century Serbian actresses
Living people
Actresses from Belgrade
Serbian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Serbian film actresses
Serbian stage actresses
Serbian television actresses
Visual effects artists
Visual effects supervisors